Joseph Kahn (journalist)

{{short description|American journalist (born 1964)}} {{Redirect|Joe Kahn|other people named Joseph Kahn|Joseph Kahn (disambiguation){{!}}Joseph Kahn}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Joe Kahn | image = Joseph Kahn.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|8|19}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | father = Leo Kahn | education = Harvard University (BA, MA) | employer = ''The New York Times'' }} '''Joseph F. Kahn''' (born August 19, 1964) is an American journalist who currently serves as executive editor of ''The New York Times''.<ref name="Grynbaum-2022"/>

== Education == Kahn attended Middlesex School as a boarding student,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/business/media/joseph-kahn-new-york-times.html | title=A Quiet Intensity, Matched with Big Ambitions | work=The New York Times | date=April 19, 2022 | last1=Grynbaum | first1=Michael M. }}</ref> serving as editor-in-chief of both the school newspaper and its literary magazine before graduating in 1983.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1732289190/mxschooledu/tkarhavwtllxhbgnhvuu/MXBulletinFall2024.pdf |magazine=Middlesex Bulletin |title=Reunion Weekend |date=Fall 2024 |page=53}}</ref> He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, where he earned a bachelor's degree in American history in 1987 and was president of ''The Harvard Crimson''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/7/1/editor-for-this-issue-pbpresidentb-joseph/|work=The Harvard Crimson |title=Editor For This Issue |date=1986-07-01}}</ref> In 1990, he received a master's degree in East Asian studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.<ref name="Grynbaum-2022">{{Cite news |last1=Grynbaum |first1=Michael M. |last2=Windolf |first2=Jim |date=2022-04-19 |title=Joe Kahn Is Named Next Executive Editor of The New York Times |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/business/media/joe-kahn-dean-baquet-new-york-times.html |access-date=2022-04-19 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

== Career == Kahn joined the ''Times'' in January 1998, after four years as China correspondent for ''The Wall Street Journal''. Before the ''Journal,'' he was a reporter at ''The Dallas Morning News'', where he was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for international reporting for their stories on violence against women around the world.<ref name="Grynbaum-2022" /> In June 1989, the Chinese government ordered Kahn to leave the country because he was working as a reporter while using a tourist visa.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Kristof |first1=Nicholas D. |date=1989-06-20 |title=Chinese Premier Says More Arrests Are Expected |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/20/world/chinese-premier-says-more-arrests-are-expected.html |access-date=2022-04-20 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In 2006, Kahn and Jim Yardley won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2006/international-reporting/bio/|title=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> for the ''Times'' covering rule of law in China, including their coverage of the detention of American-Chinese entrepreneur David Ji.

Kahn was assistant masthead editor for International at the ''New York Times'' from 2014 to September 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ember |first=Sydney |date=2016-09-16 |title=New York Times Reinstates Managing Editor Role and Appoints Joseph Kahn |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/business/media/new-york-times-reinstates-managing-editor-role-appoints-joseph-kahn.html |access-date=2022-04-19 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2016, Dean Baquet appointed him as managing editor for the ''Times'', where in time he was recognized as Baquet's likely successor as executive editor.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Folkenflik |first=David |date=2022-06-08 |title=The New York Times' new editor will run its biggest newsroom ever — and most outspoken |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/06/08/1102233666/nyt-editor-joe-kahn |access-date=2023-10-28}}</ref>

In 2025, Kahn defended and praised an article in ''The New York Times'' on Zohran Mamdani's college application to Columbia,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kabas |first1=Marisa |title=NEW: NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn spoke about the Mamdani article at his daily meeting with top editors this morning, praising both the story and the reporting process, a Times source tells me. He also praised Assistant Managing Editor Pat Healy's explanation of the situation that he posted on X. |url=https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3ltfacyppis2l |website=BlueSky |access-date=7 July 2025 |archive-date=9 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250709134132/https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3ltfacyppis2l }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Flood |first=Brian |date=2025-07-08 |title=New York Times executive editor praises Mamdani college application report amid liberal outrage |work=Fox News |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-executive-editor-praises-mamdani-college-application-report-amid-liberal-outrage |access-date=2025-07-27}}</ref> in spite of reported claims of publishing the article in pursuit of getting ahead of a conservative activist Christopher Rufo.<ref>{{cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Rafi |date=2025-07-08 |title=The New York Times plays defense after publishing leaked Mamdani college application details |work=The Week |url=https://theweek.com/politics/mamdani-new-york-times-columbia-application-african-american |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Tani |first1=Max |title=Times pushed ahead to avoid being scooped on Mamdani Columbia story |url=https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025/times-pushed-ahead-to-avoid-being-scooped-on-mamdani-columbia-story |website=Semafor |access-date=7 July 2025}}</ref> Rufo appeared on the April 11th, 2025 edition of the New York Times Podcast ''The Daily''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-11 |title= The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges |website= The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/podcasts/the-daily/christopher-rufo-dei-critical-race-theory.html/}}</ref> The Southern Poverty Law Center has described Rufo as a "far-right propagandist," and Rufo has recommended a podcast published by the Human Diversity Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Jason |date=2022-11-22 |title= Colorado Springs: Far-Right Influencers Made LGBTQ People Into Targets |work=Southern Poverty Law Center |url=https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/colorado-springs-far-right-influencers-made-lgbtq-people-targets/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilson |first=Jason |date=2024-01-31 |title=Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to 'scientific racism' journal |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/31/rightwing-activist-christopher-rufo-ties-scientific-racism-journal |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref> The article on Mamdani's college application used information credited to the alias of Jordan Lasker, who has been described as a proponent of race science and has co-authored with self-described eugenicists.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ryan |first=Benjamin |date=2025-07-03 |title=Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilson |first=Jason |date=2025-03-03 |title=US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Breland |first=Ali |date=2025-07-09 |title=A Race-Science Blogger Goes Mainstream |work=The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/cremieux-race-science-new-york-times/683474/ |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-30 |title= Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability |work=Psych |url=https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8611/1/1/34/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Eubank|first=Britny|date=28 March 2025|title='Nazis are not welcome in Austin' UT students to protest controversial on-campus conference|url=https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/university-of-texas/natal-conference-ut-austin-campus-protest/269-26e25360-d2f7-4558-82e5-d2b7a6ef6e00|work=KVUE|location= |publisher= |access-date=22 July 2025}}</ref>

==Personal life== Kahn's grandparents on his father's side were Jewish from Lithuania. His mother's parents were immigrants from Ireland. Kahn is the eldest child of Dorothy Davidson and Leo Kahn (1916–2011),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/business/13kahn.html|title=Leo Kahn, Trailblazer in Big-Box Retailing, Dies at 94|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=12 May 2011|work=The New York Times|access-date=7 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first= Ron|last=Kampeas |authorlink= |title= New York Times makes Joseph Kahn its 5th Jewish executive editor since 1964 |newspaper=The Times of Israel|date=April 20, 2022 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-times-makes-joseph-kahn-its-5th-jewish-executive-editor-since-1964/ |via=}}</ref> founder of the Purity Supreme supermarket chain in New England and co-founder of the global office supply chain Staples.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Marquard |first=Bryan |date=2011-05-13 |title=Kind-hearted entrepreneur Leo Kahn dies |work=Boston.com |url=https://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2011/05/13/kind_hearted_entrepreneur_leo_kahn_dies/ |access-date=2022-04-19}}</ref> Leo had been awarded a journalism degree from Columbia University, after which he briefly had worked as a reporter, prompting a continuing interest in journalism that was reflected in his frequent dissection of newspaper coverage with his son.<ref name="Grynbaum-2022"/> Leo Kahn served on the board of the pro-Israel organization Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) from 1990 and up to at least 2008.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Boguslaw |first=Daniel |date=2024-01-28 |title=New York Times Puts "Daily" Episode on Ice Amid Internal Firestorm Over Hamas Sexual Violence Article |work=The Intercept |url=https://theintercept.com/2024/01/28/new-york-times-daily-podcast-camera/ |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-30 |title= Form 990 for period ending December 2008 |work=ProPublica |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/521332702/2009_12_EO%2F52-1332702_990_200812 |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref> CAMERA has successfully petitioned for amendments from ''The New York Times'' during Joseph Kahn's tenure at the organization.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-10 |title= The Video that Exposed Refaat Alareer, Prompting NY Times Editors' Note |work=CAMERA |url=https://www.camera.org/article/video-reveals-how-ny-times-egregiously-misinformed-readers/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-25 |title= NY Times Amends Headline That Defended Extremist and Misrepresented Jewish Students |work=CAMERA |url=https://www.camera.org/article/ny-times-amends-headline-that-defended-extremist-and-misrepresented-jewish-students/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-18 |title= New York Times, Haaretz Correct on Israel's Electricity Cut to the Gaza Strip |work=CAMERA |url=https://www.camera.org/article/new-york-times-haaretz-correct-on-israels-electricity-cut-to-the-gaza-strip/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kingsley |first=Patrick |date=2021-11-16 |title=In Gaza, a Contentious Palestinian Professor Calmly Teaches Israeli Poetry |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/world/middleeast/gaza-university-israel-poet.html |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McFadden |first=Alyce |date=2025-04-25 |title=Cornell Cancels Kehlani Performance Over Alleged Antisemitic Statements |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/nyregion/kehlani-cornell-concert-replaced.html |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McFadden |first=Alyce |date=2025-04-23|title=Cornell Cancels Kehlani Performance Over Her Stance on the War in Gaza |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/nyregion/kehlani-cornell-concert-replaced.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250424202128/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/nyregion/kehlani-cornell-concert-replaced.html |access-date=2025-07-26 |archive-date=April 24, 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Livni |first=Ephrat |date=2025-03-14 |title=Israeli Energy Minister Cuts Off Electricity to Gaza |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/world/middleeast/israel-electricity-gaza.html |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref>

==See also== * New Yorkers in journalism

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080104215616/http://www.observer.com/2008/reporter-comes-cold Interview with Kahn about being a journalist in China] *{{Charlie Rose guest|4187}} *{{C-SPAN|65676}}

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